It strikes me that the XKCD research and marketing dept seems to have missed a major market with their latest phone.

What they should have designed was a Micro-payment generating AR Fact checking phone.

In addition to the quaint novelty of making phone calls, texting and crowd sourced Michelin star food photo checking, it should also have auto hooks back into snopes to Fact Check reality and correct it when found to be incorrect with a AR update.

While doing that it can make auto micro updates to Wikipedia which is now a subscription service and therefore will pay the XKCD AR News Edition Phone owners for their newly recorded and reported facts.

Interestingly, the phone will be free but only because it only ever unlocks if it see's someone ELSES face....

It'd single highhandedly put all those fake news sources out of business in one generation!

senectus wrote:It'd single highhandedly put all those fake news sources out of business in one generation!

You mean... Breitbart wouldn't be selling their own versions?

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senectus wrote:It strikes me that the XKCD research and marketing dept seems to have missed a major market with their latest phone.

What they should have designed was a Micro-payment generating AR Fact checking phone.

In addition to the quaint novelty of making phone calls, texting and crowd sourced Michelin star food photo checking, it should also have auto hooks back into snopes to Fact Check reality and correct it when found to be incorrect with a AR update.

While doing that it can make auto micro updates to Wikipedia which is now a subscription service and therefore will pay the XKCD AR News Edition Phone owners for their newly recorded and reported facts.

Interestingly, the phone will be free but only because it only ever unlocks if it see's someone ELSES face....

It'd single highhandedly put all those fake news sources out of business in one generation!

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewers head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existential catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them.

Dammit, I had that idea, but forgot to actually post it. I feel like that guy, who also invented the telephone but was beaten to the patent office by Bell.

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